Some people has asked me to provide such certificates and at the
n-th iteration I took the chance to streamline a bit the process
(yes, I'm lazy). In case you're interested, please check the
DDCertificate wiki
page and follow the instructions there.
While you are at it, join me in thanking Agnieszka Cicha-Cisek and
Patryk Cisek, as they have prepared the LaTeX template.

Some other people were interested in being certified, but missed
the announcement, so I'm blogging about it mainly to spread the
news. Paul Wise has already submitted
a request for proper documentation of this possibility.

We currently don't have a template for Debian
Maintainers, but it should be straightforward to add:
patches are welcome!

This does help when working in large non-free enterprises (for
money or to make them more freedom loving) and when communicating
with non-IT companies that might not even have heard much about
Debian and its organisational structure. For sure the questions
like 'So what does it mean, that you are a DD? Is it that hard to
become one?' come up rather often and this certification will help
at least some DDs to better communicate their status to people that
might find it hard to understand otherwise. And that is
particularly important when they are stakeholders.